I want to learn how to program in Java on my Mac. What’s the best way to get started? Java programming is a great thing to learn – and your Mac is the perfect place to get started. Java is by far the ...

In the post Seven Indispensable NetBeans Java Hints, I talked about using NetBeans hints in general and then focused on seven hints in particular. The seven hints emphasized in that post are listed ...

In this blog entry, I will briefly cover how to use code folding in NetBeans 6.1 while attempting to make a case for code folding in the correct situations. I agree that we all need to give and take a ...

The days of J2EE are behind us and—as of March 15, 2011—the Java EE 7 specification has full JSR support. That makes it about time to see just how far the Java specification and the tools that support ...

Java got its start at the cusp of the internet revolution in the early 1990s. It was created by James Gosling and his colleagues at Sun Microsystems, who wanted to use a virtual machine and language ...

The Netbeans 7 integrated development environment is now available to download, bringing with it support for the forthcoming Java SE Java Development Kit 7 and HTML 5 editing tools, Oracle said on ...